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Title: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: SteveW on September 08, 2011, 17:48:56 pm
The FIA European Finals is taking place this weekend (including today) and there are a few Volkswagen's racing here. For those that are interested the live feed is here.. http://www.eurodragster.com/santapod/live/2011fiaeuropeanfinals/default.asp (http://www.eurodragster.com/santapod/live/2011fiaeuropeanfinals/default.asp)

Richie Webb has ran a 9.37 backing off and Russ Fellows a 9.60 :)


Title: Re: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: vwcab on September 08, 2011, 18:31:54 pm
Saw him just running against a dragster,awesome.So nice that you can follow the races live.(@ home  ;D )


Title: Re: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: Udo on September 08, 2011, 18:58:36 pm
http://www.eurodragster.com/santapod/live/2011fiaeuropeanfinals/reports/thursday.asp

Looks like they had good weather :-)   Good luck to all , wish i could be there to race pro et :-(
By the way , 9,3 is too fast for an 9,4 index  ;) But well done richie

Udo


Title: Re: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: SteveW on September 08, 2011, 20:49:12 pm
I can't remember all the increments on the 9.37 pass but it was a 5.88 1/8mile at 117 (I think). On the final (4th) pass it launched really well but started moving so he backed out running a 11.1 at 79mph but the 1/8th  mile was 5.89 at 99mph :D

I didn't see it but Russ ran a 9.38!


Title: Re: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: BeetleBug on September 09, 2011, 08:09:32 am
Thanks Steve, you saved my day  :)


Title: Re: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: Trond Dahl on September 09, 2011, 08:22:29 am
Faster and faster and faster  :o


Title: Re: FIA European Finals - Santa Pod
Post by: Nico86 on September 09, 2011, 18:39:06 pm
Thanks for the link  :)